The Digital Government Fellows program,
supported by the National Science Foundation, intended to build ties between the
academic and industrial computing research communities on the one hand and the
information technology workers in federal, state, and local governments on the
other. Digital Government Fellows were computing researchers - typically early
career faculty or industrial researchers who had received the doctorate
within the past few years - who showed significant promise in their research. Each
CRA Digital Fellow was expected to give a public lecture to an audience that
included a significant number of government professionals.